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Oughterson's

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Other
Joseph Gittens
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Connell

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2882 (Oughterson's)
£3,330 8S 4D

Notes

Estate Information (5)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Size] 140  
 

According to Hughes-Queree, in 1819 Arthur Oughterson sold to Joseph Gittens Padmore’s plantation of 140 acres in St Philip. However, Gittens never completed the purchase and it was sold in the Chancery Court to Joseph Connell for £17,500 currency: 140 acres and 124 enslaved. The land and enslaved were appraised at the following values: land: £60 per acre, total £8,400; 124 enslaved: total £7,450; cattle: £225. Total: £16,075.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Connell, his own property. Although no estate name was given this is probably Oughterson's. See also the return of Joseph Gittens for the sale of enslaved, in Chancery, to Connell: see entry for Fairfields which shows Gittens's purchases of enslaved from the Estate of John Sheafe the Estate of Arthur Oughterson, deceased: 40.

 
T71/536 235-9
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Connell, his own property. Although no estate name was given this is probably Oughterson's.

 
T71/544 229-30
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph Connell, his own property.

 
T71/549 242-3
1913
[Name] Oughterson  
[Size] 188  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Farmer.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.